SPeter 2008-8-13 21:06
俄軍砲火未到，網路攻擊先至
內容引述自NY TIMES（節錄）：
[url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/technology/13cyber.html]Before the Gunfire, Cyberattacks[/url]
Published: August 12, 2008
Weeks before bombs started falling on Georgia, a security researcher in suburban Massachusetts was watching an attack against the country in cyberspace.Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks in Lexington noticed a stream of data directed at Georgian government sites containing the message: “win+love+in+Rusia.”
Other Internet experts in the United States said the attacks against Georgia’s Internet infrastructure began as early as July 20, with coordinated barrages of millions of requests — known as distributed denial of service, or D.D.O.S., attacks — that overloaded and effectively shut down Georgian servers.
Researchers at Shadowserver, a volunteer group that tracks malicious network activity, reported that the Web site of the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, had been rendered inoperable for 24 hours by multiple D.D.O.S. attacks. They said the command and control server that directed the attack was based in the United States and had come online several weeks before it began the assault.
As it turns out, the July attack may have been a dress rehearsal for an all-out cyberwar once the shooting started between Georgia and Russia. According to Internet technical experts, it was the first time a known cyberattack had coincided with a shooting war.
在俄羅斯和Georgia開戰前，早在7/20開始，就有以美國某處伺服器為發起中心的DDOS攻擊針對Georgia政府網站而來。攻擊包含這樣的字串內容「win+love+in+Rusia.」。這可能是首次伴隨實際戰爭行為的網路攻擊，目的可能在於測試發起軍事行動時，同步癱瘓目標網絡資訊傳輸的可行性。